music box

Example Sentences

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Aficionados will delight in minor details such as being close enough to touch the ghoulish monkey music box from the original, and being within breathing distance of the performers in these famous roles.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 9, 2025

René opens the music box, and a tinkling music begins to play, the same song heard long ago in his Damascus sitting room.

From BBC • Dec. 23, 2024

They were found with two small bags holding clothes, a towel, a flashlight, two phones and a music box.

From Seattle Times • Jun. 16, 2023

Plinking, glimmering, stuttering keyboard tones, somewhere between a piano and a music box, ripple across “Touha,” a track that previews “Romantiq,” the next album by Oval.

From New York Times • Feb. 17, 2023

I would have been horrified if I had known that two days after I received the music box, Mary Miller wrote Mr. Ferris requesting that parental contact be stopped altogether.

From "Three Little Words: A Memoir" by Ashley Rhodes-Courter